Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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>Quæ ſi cuncta uelim tenui percurrere uerſu,
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Ante alium reuehat Memnonis o
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Quos fert innumeris Teutona terra locis.</
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>Quo ſal, quo nitrum, quo pacto fiat alumen,
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Vſibus artiſicis cùm parat illa manus:</
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Maſſa〈qué〉 quo uitri lenta dolanda modo.</
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Pauperiem uſqueadeo ferre famem〈qué〉 graue eſt,</
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Et patriæ ciuem non dare uelle malum.</
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Mens, ſed fert domino uota preces〈qué〉 Deo.</
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Extollens animum lætus ad aſtra ſuum.</
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Cui memori grates pectore ſemper agit.</
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Qui uirtutis habent cum pietate decus.</
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>Huc oculos, huc flecte animum, ſuauiſſime Lector,
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Auctorem〈qué〉 pia noſcito mente Deum.</
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>AGRICOLAE hinc optans operoſo fauſta labori,
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Laudibus eximij candidus eſto uiri.</
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Et uir in ore frequens poſteritatis erit.</
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>Cuncta cadunt letho, ſtudij monumenta uigebunt,
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Purpurei doneclumina ſolis erunt.</
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>Miſenæ M. D. LI.</
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>èludo illuſtri.</
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>For completeness' sake we reproduce in the original Latin the laudation of Agricola
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by his friend, Georgius Fabricius, a leading scholar of his time. </
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value for it is not poetry of a very high order, and to make it acceptable English would require
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certain improvements, for which only poets have license. </
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few lines indicates its complimentary character:—</
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And in the mouths of nations yet unborn
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His praises shall be sung; Death comes to all
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But great achievements raise a monument
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Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”</
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